Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh also known as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian socialist and a revolutionary. He is considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian Independence Movement.

Bhagat Singh

This photograph was clicked in a photo studio of Delhi before going for Central Assembly Hall action in April 1929

He was born to Vidyavati kaur and Sardar Kisan Singh Sandhu,in a Sikh jat family on 28 September 1907 in lyaalpur,Punjab in British India. His family had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj. When Bhagat Singh was a teenager, he studied European revolutionary movements. He read Marxists Books also to know about that side too. It was said that this attracted him but that is still not proven.
In 1925, he initiated Naujawan Bharat Sabha
He became involved in numerous revolutionary activities. He quickly gained prominence in the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) and became one of its chief leaders. Eventually, the name of the organization was changed to Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). This happened in the year 1928.

Lala Lajpat Rai was killed at the hands of the police. Bhagat Singh wanted revenge for this incidence. He avenged the death of Lala Lajpat Rai and killed the British Police Officer John Saunders. The police tried to capture him. However, Bhagat Singh was successful in avoiding arrest.

After the bombarding, they surrendered. He was held on this charge in prison. He underwent a 116-day fast in jail and so he did not have food for that long.
He went on hunger strike in Jail to protest the inhuman treatment of fellow prisoners by jail authority. In response to this determined protest, he gained nationwide support.

His mentor as a young boy was Kartar Singh Sarabha, whose photo he always carried in his pocket. Singh is himself considered a martyr by Indians for acting to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. While in prison, Singh and two others had written a letter to Lord Irwin, wherein they asked to be treated as prisoners of war and consequently to be executed by firing squad and not by hanging. Prannath Mehta, Singh's friend, visited him in the jail on 20 March, four days before his execution, with a draft letter for mercy, but he declined to sign it. He was executed on 23 March 1931 at the age of 23.